Community outreach

Colgate® “Destination Innovation” Discovery Bus Tours Drive Attendance of Over 100 Dental Professionals During 2014 Greater New York Dental Meeting

Dentists and Hygienists Explore the Company’s Global Research & Technology Center While Learning Directly from Colgate® Experts  New York, NY – Colgate®’s “Destination Innovation” Discovery Bus tours recently provided over 100 dentists and hygienists the opportunity to visit the company’s Global Research & Technology Center in Piscataway, New Jersey, during the 2014 Greater New York … Read more

Health Mission Outreach

Health Mission Outreach, founded in 2009, is a registered Canadian non-profit medical/dental outreach organization consisting of licensed health care professionals and general volunteers. The organization was created in response to the overwhelming need to serve those without equal access to dental and medical care. They provide heath care to the disadvantaged: those who are deprived … Read more

Take five with – fill in the blank

http://www.take5withmarty.com/ Wonderful effort by Dr. Marty Jablow…..imagine if OH or the CDA created such a channel and used it to chat up dentistry across the country….spectacular addendum to the elearning section of Oral Health…..fabulous way to introduce the bright and leading lights of the Canadian Dental Community – now if we only had a sponsor……hmmmmm … Read more

Bone sets the tone

A very large majority of the unsolicited email that crosses my pewter is email blasts for CE. There was one today from the Halton Peel Dental Association, my regional society, the largest in Canada I’m told. On June 1st, 2012, Dr. Paul Weigl will be presenting an all day program on Brilliant Aesthetics. I’ve seen … Read more

We be cloggin’ and slide sharin’

Tryin’ somethin’ new for the peeps – Slide Share – since we can’t get the folks to send six or eight images and a few lines of texts, perhaps, they’ll Slide Share from the Moody Blues song Steppin’ in a Slide Zone…play it last or as it lays. Here’s some fun stuff from me amigo in … Read more

Canada Still Leads the World in Online Engagement, Report Suggests

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Fri, March 2, 2012 – in Tech Vibes  Canada continues to lead the world in online enagement, according to new data from comScore. The 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus report reveals that web users spend an average of 45 hours online per month.  The study also found that, while Facebook is … Read more

The diplomacy of knowledge

We are a geographically a huge country with a population less than the state of California if you count Arnold Schwarzenegger twice…we could have a Canadian dental intranet – iTrans – it would require very little to make itransdental.com the domain name for all Canadian dentists – granted there would have to be Doug.Smith(1-99)@itransdental.com allowed … Read more

Accessibility – Special-needs people need dental care, too

From – Dr. John Reitz – Readingeagle.com I received an email from a nonprofit organization, Abilities in Motion, concerning a newly published dental video series that assists patients with developmental disabilities. The video was produced with the help of the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council and is a great resource for families and dentists. Developmental disabilities … Read more

For our corporate brothers in arms – early New Year’s resolution

From the Harvard Business Review – to be extrapolated For decades the mystery shopper was the main way retailers assessed operations from a customer’s point of view. By sending in a fake shopper, typically once a month, an individual store essentially was buying a dozen performance snapshots per year. Then telephone surveys began to supplement mystery shopping. … Read more

There is a god; we made the New York Times Sunday Review

IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic … Read more

Canadian Association for People-Centered Health

Working on this blog is fascinating. As much fun as clinical dentistry can be, it’s amazing to sift through Dental News alerts. It’s a cerebral Klondike gold rush; you find little grains of wonder and big nuggets of “holy cow!”…..this was one of them….visit the website. http://capch.ca/

Chairside Techniques: How to Successfully Manage Implant Patient

Webinar on Tuesday from the Association of Dental Implant Auxiliaries HAVE A TEAM MEETING!!! https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/684212443 Image by fe_cavallo via Flickr Related articles Introducing CheckDent, the Social Network for Dental Health (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Gene combination identified as risk factor in success of dental implants (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Healing times for dental implants could be cut (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) New Fiber-Reinforced Composite … Read more

www.jewelmint.com

I maintain a series of alerts for health science related charities. One that popped up this morning has been developed by Kate Bosworth and Cher Coulter. They sell jewellery “by design”, think “smile by design” and work from there. The charity is:  International Medical Corps is a global organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering … Read more

Adults left out of improvements to dental care programs

July 1, 2011 – By Tanya Talaga – Queen’s Park Bureau – Toronto Star At 28, young mom Chrissy Johnson refused to open her mouth because if she did, people would see her rotten teeth and abscessed gums. Image via Wikipedia Johnson quit her factory job due to pain in her jaws. Embarrassed, she refused … Read more